“NSW boasts more than three million visitors annually and Queensland and Victoria some two million each. SA manages a paltry 362,000 and the few international visitors we do get spend far less money than visitors to other states.

“The Weatherill Labor Government is failing to meet the tourism goals set down in its own State Strategic Plan.

“Then, to add insult to incompetence, Labor announced it will slash the Tourism Commission’s Budget by millions of dollars while simultaneously wasting hundreds of thousands on failed events like the disastrous Word Adelaide fiasco,” said Mr Ridgway.